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It was refreshing to read the entire thread and not see a negative comment about the source of the patch. The entire thread was limited to discussing the actua

It was refreshing to read the entire thread and not see a negative comment about the source of the patch. The entire thread was limited to discussing the actual patch implementation. Good for the patch submitter for doing two things: 1)sticking around and answer any questions about the patch. Some people dump their patch and leave. 2) For making their modification stay behind an input flag, ie they aren't pushing this as the default, though it looks like maybe it should be. And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before!

pionar 12y ago
> And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before! Open Tech is the MS group that is trying to push open source as a culture both inside Microsoft and also among traditional .NET developers. They're the reason you can run Node on Azure, can reliably run Redis on Windows, and they're the ones leading the drive on ASP.NET vNext, the next version of ASP.NET. It makes it a really exciting time to be a .NET dev. (Not affiliated, just a fan)
- moron4hire 12y ago
  Is the file extension going to be .aspxx?
- stuaxo 12y ago
  How does one contact them, maybe they could help with some python issues on windows ?
btreecat 12y ago
This "new leaf" Microsoft is showing is quite refreshing. I hope they continue to integrate themselves as part of the FOSS community while reducing their fights.
VBprogrammer 12y ago
I did find that they were top posting amusing. Well done for the other contributors in the thread for ignoring it though. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting
ptx 12y ago
> And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before! I was about to say that the purpose of the separation is probably to allow them the possibility to grant patent licenses with one hand (e.g. under the Apache 2.0 license) while suing with the other... but Microsoft Open Technologies being a "wholly-owned subsidiary" actually means (I think) that the license would consider them the same "Legal Entity", so that particular trick wouldn't work.

pionar 12y ago

> And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before! Open Tech is the MS group that is trying to push open source as a culture both inside Microsoft and also among traditional .NET developers. They're the reason you can run Node on Azure, can reliably run Redis on Windows, and they're the ones leading the drive on ASP.NET vNext, the next version of ASP.NET. It makes it a really exciting time to be a .NET dev. (Not affiliated, just a fan)

moron4hire 12y ago
Is the file extension going to be .aspxx?
stuaxo 12y ago
How does one contact them, maybe they could help with some python issues on windows ?

btreecat 12y ago

This "new leaf" Microsoft is showing is quite refreshing. I hope they continue to integrate themselves as part of the FOSS community while reducing their fights.

VBprogrammer 12y ago

I did find that they were top posting amusing. Well done for the other contributors in the thread for ignoring it though. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting

ptx 12y ago

> And today I found out about "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc." I've never heard of that group before! I was about to say that the purpose of the separation is probably to allow them the possibility to grant patent licenses with one hand (e.g. under the Apache 2.0 license) while suing with the other... but Microsoft Open Technologies being a "wholly-owned subsidiary" actually means (I think) that the license would consider them the same "Legal Entity", so that particular trick wouldn't work.